The Times Book of The Queen Mother: A Celebration of the Life and Times of Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother - Couverture rigide

Hamilton, Alan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0723010439 ISBN 13 : 9780723010432

Editeur : Times Books, 1999

Synopsis

A fascinating, often moving, always authoritative illustrated account of Britain’s best-loved royal

The Queen Mother’s life spans the 20th century. She was born, in August 1900, into a world where Queen Victoria still reigned and Britain was in the full pomp of its imperial heyday. She has witnessed a century of turbulence and change: two world wars, the end of empire, the atomic age, social and scientific revolution on an unprecedented scale. Yet she has been no mere witness to history. Her role in the Abdication of Edward VIII was pivotal, while in the Second World War, as Queen Consort to George VI, she became a staunch symbol of Britain’s implaccable refusal to give way to Hitler.

Her talent has been to be the grandest lady in the land without ever appearing so, her greatest contribution to the British throne, her personality. Today, the greater her age, the more remarkable she seems, her charm, dignity and humanity increasing with age rather than diminishing.

The Queen Mother is a lavish celebration of this remarkable woman, one which not only pays tribute to her life but places it firmly in its historical context. Written by Alan Hamilton, Royal Correspondent of The Times, and illustrated by more than 300 photographs from the paper’s immense archive, a number never published before, it is a fascinating, often moving, always authoritative account of her life and times.

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A fascinating, often moving, always authoritative illustrated account of Britain’s best-loved royal

The Queen Mother’s life spans the 20th century. She was born, in August 1900, into a world where Queen Victoria still reigned and Britain was in the full pomp of its imperial heyday. She has witnessed a century of turbulence and change: two world wars, the end of empire, the atomic age, social and scientific revolution on an unprecedented scale. Yet she has been no mere witness to history. Her role in the Abdication of Edward VIII was pivotal, while in the Second World War, as Queen Consort to George VI, she became a staunch symbol of Britain’s implaccable refusal to give way to Hitler.

Her talent has been to be the grandest lady in the land without ever appearing so, her greatest contribution to the British throne, her personality. Today, the greater her age, the more remarkable she seems, her charm, dignity and humanity increasing with age rather than diminishing.

'The Queen Mother' is a lavish celebration of this remarkable woman, one which not only pays tribute to her life but places it firmly in its historical context. Written by Alan Hamilton, Royal Correspondent of 'The Times', and illustrated by more than 300 photographs from the paper’s immense archive, a number never published before, it is a fascinating, often moving, always authoritative account of her life and times.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Times Books
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0723010439
• ISBN 13: 9780723010432
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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